Look up compliance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Compliance can mean:
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Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment
Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a specific usage of the mechanical meaning)
Pulmonary compliance (or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure